Thingvellir National Park holidays

Thingvellir National Park is the oldest national park in Iceland and protects the site of the world's oldest still-existing parliament, established in 930 AD by Iceland's founding Norse settlers. Also located within the park's boundaries are the scenic Thingvellirvatn Lake and running through the middle of the park, the Almannagja rift, meeting point of the North American and European tectonic plates. A Unesco World Heritage site, the park today is administered directly by the prime minister's office in Reykjavik.

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Walking in the snow at the bottom of the mid Atlantic Ridge, with the Eur-Asian tectonic plate on one side and the American plate on the other side of the valley. Also seeing the Northern Lights was an absolutely amazing, primeval experience, which ranked with seeing Wolves, Bears and Buffaloes in the wild in Yellowstone on a different adventure. Always wanted to do this, along with walking through a real Arctic storm, which we did. Mr Philip Butler

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